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Pallasite

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See Pallas iron and meteorite.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A stony-iron meteorite embedded with glassy crystals of olivine
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a meteorite composed principally of olivine and metallic iron
  • Word Usage
    "Railway ties were laid callously across the fine pallasite stones; the line cleaved the former nation of Arbath like a whip-mark."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    meteorite